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Throughout history, human beings have had a strong sense _____________.
What is curiosity?
A statement that summarizes a pattern found in nature.
What is scientific law?
A gauge of how exact a measurement is.
What is precision?
A relationship in which the ratio of two variables is constant.
What is direct proportion.
An instrument that measures temperature.
What is a thermometer?
A system of knowledge and the methods you use to find that knowledge.
What is science?
A proposed answer to a question.
What is a hypothesis?
The closeness of a measurement to actual value of what is being measured.
What is accuracy?
A relationship in which the product of two variables is a constant.
What is inverse proportion?
The variable that changes in response to the manipulated variable.
What is responding variable.
The use of knowledge to solve practical problems.
What is technology?
Information that you obtain through your senses.
What is an observation?
Amount of space being taken up by an object.
What is volume?
Rise over Run equals
What is slope?
An organized plan for gathering, organizing, and communicating information
What is Scientific method.
The study of matter and energy and the interactions between the two through forces and motion.
Physics
An experiment in which only one variable is changed at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
A ratio of equivalent measurements that is used to convert a quantity expressed in one unit to another unit.
What is a conversion factor?
Often used to compare a set of measurements, amounts, or changes.
What is a bar graph?
The study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth
What is Geology.
The study of the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter.
What is Chemistry?
A variable that causes a change in another.
What is a manipulated variable?
All the digits that are known in a measurement, plus the last digit that is estimated.
What are significant figures?
Scientists write in this to communicate results.
What is a scientific journal?
Physical Science, Earth and Space science, and life science
What are the three branches of natural science?